Reys-gheschrift van de navigatien / Jan Huygen van Linschoten. Amsterdam : C. Claesz., 1595 -- Beschryvinghe van de gantsche custe / Jan Huygen van Linschoten. Amsterdam : C. Claesz., 1596

Signatures: [(ornament)]⁴ A-M⁶ N⁸ 2A-2L⁶ 2M⁸(2M1 + chi²) ²A⁸ B-F⁶ G⁴ 3[fleuron]⁴ (2M8 and ²G4 versos blank; leaf 2L4 missigned 2L3)

Pagination: [8], 160, 134, [4], 135-147, [1], 82 (page 60 misnumbered 59), [10] p., [42] folded leaves of plates

Engraved title vignettes: ships, maps

Some copies have leaf [(ornament)]2 verso dated 1595, others dated I. Ianuarij, An. 1596. In the Itinerario, chapters 7-19 and 21-26 have been misnumbered. Some copies have the numeration corrected with pasted slips. The plates sometimes have printed text on their versos

Errata statement: leaf 3[fleuron]4 verso

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

European Americana

European Americana

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 has hand colored illustrations; has gathering ³[fleuron]⁴ bound following [(ornament)]⁴ and the Reys-gheschrift bound following the Beschryvinghe; leaf [(ornament)]2 verso dated 1595; has original numeration on most chapters; no printed text on versos of plates

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 has leaf [(ornament)]2 verso dated 1. Ianuarij, An. 1596; leaf 2L4 unsigned; lacks plate labelled: Inquilini e Cananor ... ; incorrect chapter numeration corrected with pasted slips; bound in contemporary vellum; gathering chi² misbound preceding gathering [(oranment)]⁴; printed text on the versos of the plates labelled: Insulae et arcis Mocambique ... and Vera effigies et delineatio .

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